If you run away from problems, your problems will run after you. National sport organisations are discovering that problems don’t go away by simply ignoring them. Problems, issues, concerns, setbacks and failures must be addressed and confronted.

>Having watched IPT at Randburg in 2011 and Bloemfontein last year and looking at some of the results at this year’s edition in Cape Town it strikes me that the Provincial B teams and some of the A teams are completely out of their depth in the A section competition and the B section is a joke from a participation point of view that costs money that isn’t there to provide officials and logistical support for the tournament.>

These last few weeks the Decision Referral System in cricket has come under an immense amount of criticism to the point that many scribes around the world are asking if we shouldn't go back to the original relying on umpire decision without resorting to technology. Should we do this in Hockey?

In watching almost every game of World Hockey League Round 3 thanks to the new FIH streaming channel on YouTube it struck me that probably over 80% of all penalty corners awarded are given for what is technically not an offence.